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Top Republican on Foreign Relations panel (Corker) says drone war may not be lawful
Source: Yahoo! News
Top Republican on Foreign Relations panel says drone war may not be lawful
By Olivier Knox, Yahoo! News | The Ticket – 4 hrs ago
President Barack Obama’s deadly drone war against suspected extremists, including Americans overseas, may not be legal, Sen. Bob Corker, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told Yahoo News in an exclusive interview. And, Corker said, the drone campaign may be creating more terrorists than it is killing.
The Tennessee lawmaker told Yahoo News Thursday afternoon that Obama should wait until after Afghanistan’s April 2014 elections to decide on the pace of U.S. troop withdrawal there. Corker also bluntly declared that he does not trust Afghan President Hamid Karzai and vowed to make sure the State Department carries out reforms proposed in response to the deadly terrorist attack against the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya, last September.
The hour-long interview in Corker’s tidy Capitol Hill office came as the Senate Intelligence Committee grilled Obama’s nominee to head the CIA, John Brennan, over his role in expanding America’s controversial drone campaign.
The White House sometimes seems to regard Brennan “to be this priestly figure who goes to work every day in a windowless room and decides who he’s going to execute that day,” Corker said. “That’s got to be offensive to American values.”
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By Olivier Knox, Yahoo! News | The Ticket – 4 hrs ago
President Barack Obama’s deadly drone war against suspected extremists, including Americans overseas, may not be legal, Sen. Bob Corker, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told Yahoo News in an exclusive interview. And, Corker said, the drone campaign may be creating more terrorists than it is killing.
The Tennessee lawmaker told Yahoo News Thursday afternoon that Obama should wait until after Afghanistan’s April 2014 elections to decide on the pace of U.S. troop withdrawal there. Corker also bluntly declared that he does not trust Afghan President Hamid Karzai and vowed to make sure the State Department carries out reforms proposed in response to the deadly terrorist attack against the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya, last September.
The hour-long interview in Corker’s tidy Capitol Hill office came as the Senate Intelligence Committee grilled Obama’s nominee to head the CIA, John Brennan, over his role in expanding America’s controversial drone campaign.
The White House sometimes seems to regard Brennan “to be this priestly figure who goes to work every day in a windowless room and decides who he’s going to execute that day,” Corker said. “That’s got to be offensive to American values.”
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Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/republican-foreign-relations-chairman-says-drone-war-may-094301456--politics.html
